438 Examination of the Inscription [May, 



" Having described the Aswastama. I wilLretum to the tank (Ko- 

 sala-gang). This once superb artificial sheet of water is now partly- 

 choked up with the accumulated mud and sand of ages, one half of it 

 only remaining covered with water, except in the rainy season, when it 

 is filled to its full extent of one mile and a half in length, by five fur- 

 longs in breadth ; it was originally fed by means of a canal leading from 

 the Dyah river to the northwest corner of it. There is an island called, 

 ' n&r or Barabati or * fort' in the centre, now in ruins. 



" The canal is now choked up ; there are the remains of several small 

 bridges near it. 



" The mound round the tank, is evidently the site of a large city. There 

 are heaps of stone, foundations, potsherds and bricks, particularly on 

 the Dhauli or western side. This may have been the city mentioned in 

 the inscription. With regard to the other stupas named there has 

 been a large circular building on the summit of the Udayagiri rock. 



" Bhuvaneswar is the site of a very extensive city the name of which 

 Is lost : the present village is called after the great temple, * Ling raj, 

 Bhuvaneswara* " 



There are several of the small isolated hills called Panch-pandeb 

 asthdns in some of which there are small caves. There is also a natural 

 cavern in the great hill at Kurda attributed to the Pandavas, in which 

 there is said to be a small inscription. 



Note. Persons wishing to visit the Aswastama should proceed as far as Sur- 

 daipoor, Nyabazar at the N. E. corner of the Kosala-gang on the Porree road, and 

 then proceed directly along the edge of the tank : vide map. There is also a direct 

 path from Bhuwaneswar to Dhauli hill . 



I now proceed to the two chief inscriptions, in the old Pali character, 

 premising that the present text, which is taken from Mr. Kittoe's 

 original pencil transcript, corrected by a second visit to the spot, will 

 be found to differ here and there from the lithograph in PL X., which 

 was done in a hurry. 



First separate tablet at Dhauli, 



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